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“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/ https://bear.app/
by jitl 6y ago
“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/ https://bear.app/
- binaryorganic 6y agoThis is a great, great app. I use it and love it.
- dan_can_code 6y agoI agree, bear is great. I miss it - I no longer have an iPhone and am Windows dependent :-(. I have made the best use of OneNote as I can - but the ease of categorisation of thoughts within the bear app will always be the best imo.
- rgrs 6y agoTry Joplin. As a heavy user of markdown for notes, i wanted something cross-platform across OSes and devices. Joplin fits my requirements perfectly.
- apozem 6y agoI want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.
- PascLeRasc 6y agoI'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.
- 1f60c 6y agoNotion is amazing, and they recently removed the cap on the amount of "blocks" you're allowed to use on the free plan[0]. No affiliation, just a happy customer. :-) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786
- chrisweekly 6y agoAgreed, Notion is awesome. I have even stronger feelings about Roam though. Notion is "better" than just abt anything else like it, whereas Roam is different -- there is nothing else like it.
- 1f60c 6y agoRoam as in https://roamresearch.com/ https://roamresearch.com/?
- chrisweekly 6y agoYes!
- michaelmrose 6y agoWhat about org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server
- chrisweekly 6y agoMight be nice for Emacs / orgmode users?
- johntash 6y agoI wish Notion had a self-hosted version. I store a lot of things in Joplin (previously Evernote) that I'm just not comfortable having on 3rd party servers :(
- uxamanda 6y agoJoplin is cool because you can add your own css to customize the desktop app. I realize not every is interested in doing that, but I’ve been an advocate once I tweaked the styles to my liking [0]. Agree with you that the mobile app styles are very rough, but the community is very active and open to suggestions / improvements [1]. [0] https://github.com/amandamcg/joplin-theme https://github.com/amandamcg/joplin-theme [1] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/ https://discourse.joplinapp.org/
- dan_can_code 6y agoJoplin looks really interesting - thank you for the recommendation!
- arvinsim 6y agoTry out Notion. They recently changed their free plan to have unlimited blocks.
- dan_can_code 6y agoI have given them a go - but I had some privacy concerns. I may look into this again, thank you.
- HermanMartinus 6y agoI was trying to play on the word "bare". Yeah, I realised this a bit too late
- mark-r 6y agoI have to say I like the character based logo. Inventive use of Unicode I'm guessing.
- wodenokoto 6y agoIt’s a fairly well known koamoji. Kaomoji is the horizontal counterpart to smileys and they can get very creative. If you set your iPhone to Japanese keyboard it comes with hundreds of these build in ︎('ω'︎ )
- pedrogpimenta 6y agoBold to assume this person has an iPhone :)
- kparaju 6y agoI copy paste them :) http://japaneseemoticons.me/all-japanese-emoticons/ http://japaneseemoticons.me/all-japanese-emoticons/
- jklinger410 6y agoApple users seem to think everyone uses Apple products.
- enz 6y agoPro tip for iPhone users: juste type かおもじ (kaomoji) and slide the suggestion bar: you have all the kaomojis you want.
- arvinsim 6y agoI was actually wondering why the note taking app was named "Bear". Maybe they thought the same way as you do :)
- criddell 6y agoThat's what I thought this was - a bit of automation to publish right from the Bear app.
- ubermonkey 6y agoBear is pretty dumb and limited. If it covers your use-case, great, but if you step outside of the narrow path at all, it fails. I actually tried to use Bear as a MD-based publisher to my WP blog, and it just ran aground badly.
- karlding 6y agoIt's also a tool that helps generate a JSON compilation database [0] for Clang Tooling. [0] https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear
- mmm_grayons 6y agoThanks for linking that. I've been using the compile commands for autocompletion in vim, so it's nice to know I'm not tied to cmake for that.
- shrutipathak 6y agoDitto. I thought this is a new product by bear. Got me excited for a bit. I wonder if trademark would kick in later for this.
- mosselman 6y agoWhat a world we live in that we have to worry about trademark issues for the name of one of the most common animal names a child could think of.
- bignell 6y agoI mean, if they wanted to reserve the use of this common animal name across all industries, that’d be ridiculous, but it would seem pretty reasonable to worry about confusion between a cloud notes app and a cloud blog app. Certainly easier to think about it now than if this service takes off.
- beshrkayali 6y agoThese are two different products. Blogging != note taking. And it doesn't seem like there's malicious intent. You can't use a generic name and expect others not to come up with the same idea.
- bignell 6y agoBlogging !== note-taking, but you could definitely make the argument that a blog post is semantically a public note. Apple, Fox, Shell, Target...any of these generic words ring a bell? I’m sure there was no malicious intent, and it’s very possible that these two products will coexist without any further issue. But as evidenced in this very thread there is the potential for confusion, which is the whole point of trademarks, and the reason why I’d have an easier time incorporating “Apple Surfboards“ than I would “Apple Keyboards”.
- mosselman 6y ago
- manigandham 6y agoThere's about a million different note-taking apps now (and they're about 95% the same).
- Can_Not 6y agoAnd zero of them are better than github's gist with dark mode and proper markdown support.
- st1ck 6y agoIs it known among non mac/ios users? I've never heard of it before. Not to mention that by using such a generic name you're just begging for collisions.